Chapter 48

Maeve’s POV

My father killed her.

My father killed Calli.

A stab of agony shot through my chest as I absorbed the news and watched Devon’s shoulders shake with grief. I forced myself to breathe. “What happened?” I whispered, voice trembling.

Devon’s reply tumbled out between ragged sobs. “She was chosen—one of the young girls sent to the Gray Wolves Pack.”

I pressed a shaking hand to my lips. The Gray Wolves Pack. The very name sent a chill through every young female wolf in my father’s territory. Far to the east lay their jagged mountains and dense forests, divided from us by dozens of territories. Despite the distance, they were bound by treaty to my father. Since he didn’t sit on the Council and wasn’t part of the Eclipse Pack, he relied on allied packs for protection—and the Gray Wolves were one of those – brutal and merciless.

Each autumn, he rounded up a large group of adolescent females and shipped them off to the Gray Wolves. They n